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"60th Coupe Gordon Bennett": the sky with many balloons -VIDEO

Gladbeck, Germany - Forty-eight pilots in 24 gas-balloons. Suggestive start

Gas-balloonists from a dozen countries launched late on Sunday night 18 September 2016 at the start of what is aviation’s oldest and most prestigious gas-balloon race – the "60th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett". Forty-eight pilots in 24 gas-balloons -two pilots in each balloon– set off from Gladbeck, northwest Germany around midnight, launching into a moonlit sky and heading south, carried along...

fra/pec - 1177581
Rome, Italy, 09/19/2016 18:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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